407–8

Conversation No. 407-8

Date: January 23, 1973
Time: Unknown between 4:55 pm and 5:24 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President dictated a memorandum for the files.


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Testing

The President played the recording.

Introduction

The President’s dictation machine
-White House Communications Office
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman

Incomplete previous memorandum on relatives
-Alice [Last Name Unknown]
-Appearance
-Background
-Children
-Ezra’s wife Anna [Last names unknown]
-Grandmother Milhous
-Real name
-Home
-Grandchildren

Vietnam settlement
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

-The President’s speech

An unknown person left at an unknown time between 4:55 pm and 5:24 pm.

-The President’s letters to congressional supporters
-Unnamed secretary in Tom Johnson’s office
-Haldeman
-Compared with other efforts of the White House
-Correspondence section
-Heads of State

The President’s schedule
-Sleep
-Office arrival

White House Dinners
-Rose Mary Woods
-Staff
-George P. Schultz
-Haldeman
-Role

Vietnam settlement
-Message from Henry A. Kissinger
-Cabinet meeting
-Length
-The President’s speech
-Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
-Raymond K. Price, Jr.
-Compared to Inaugural speech
-The President’s statement
-Lyndon B. Johnson’s death
-Length
-The President’s discussion with Haldeman
-Ronald L. Ziegler
-The President’s speech
-Location
-Press
-Congress
-Price, Haldeman, White House staff, Haig
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

-Price’s views
-Moscow
-North Vietnam, South Vietnam
-Haig’s views
-Ziegler’s views
-Publicity
-Calls to Carl B. Albert, Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
-Problems
-John C. Stennis
-John B. Connally
-Gerald R. Ford
-Publicity for President
-George S. McGovern
-Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Bella Abzug
-Television [TV]
-Significance
-The President’s opponents
-Bureaucracy
-Congress

The President’s schedule
-Sleep
-Refreshments
-Charles W. Colson meeting
-Sleep
-Colson meeting
-Lawsuit vs. time
-Public opinion
-Possible outcome
-Courts
-Campaign against the President’s opponents
-Haldeman
-Haig meeting
-Kissinger
-Elliot L. Richardson, [David] Kenneth Rush
-William P. Rogers, Melvin Laird [?]
-Price and Haig meeting
-Press response to the President’s speech
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

Vietnam settlement
-The President’s expectations
-Press response
-Compared to Cambodian invasion
-Price’s comment
-Washington Post editorial on the President’s May 8, 1972 decision
-Effect of bombing
-Polish ambassador to Hanoi
-North Vietnamese leaders
-Hospital

The President’s call to William S. White
-The President’s last call to Lyndon Johnson
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Vietnam settlement

Lyndon Johnson
-1968 election
-Response to The President’s November 3, 1969 speech
-Public opinion on Vietnam War
-Harris
-The President’s opponents
-Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty [SALT] [?]
-Lessons for future
-Domestic policy, foreign policy

Rose Mary Woods
-Views on White House staff salaries

Personnel and salaries

The President’s meeting with Haldeman
-Possible budget groups
-John D. Ehrlichman, Schultz

The President’s schedule
-Stephen B. Bull
-Cabinet meetings
-Press conferences
-Congressional meetings
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

Tape Subject Log
(rev. Apr.-09)

Conversation No. 407-8 (cont’d)

-Haldeman
-Goals
-Ehrlichman
-The President’s speech followed by a press conference
-Goals
-Pacing
-Haldeman
-Ehrlichman, Schultz
-Compared to Haldeman

Vietnam settlement
-Announcement
-Briefing
-Press relations
-New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times

The President’s conversation with Haldeman
-Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Tom Johnson
-Positions in administration

Vietnam settlement
-Bombing
-Comment by Haig

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